WASHINGTON: US Pres­ident Donald Trump’s national security counselor says North Korea could be come back to the rundown of nations the US trusts support fear based oppression, as a major aspect of Trump’s procedure to counter the North’s developing atomic risk.

“You’ll hear more about that soon, I think,” the counsel, H.R. McMaster, said at a preparation on the eve of Trump’s five-country voyage through Asia, which begins on Friday.

North Korea’s atomic and rocket weapons risk will be a key concentration of Trump’s gatherings with the pioneers of Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines amid the 12-day trip, the president’s first official visit to the district.

McMaster refered to the executing in a Malaysian air terminal not long ago of the irritated stepbrother of North Korea’s pioneer as a demonstration of fear mongering that could prompt the North’s being added back to a rundown that incorporates just Iran, Sudan and Syria.

While Malaysia has not straightforwardly blamed North Korea, South Korea’s government agent office has asserted the assault was a piece of a plot by North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un to slaughter his sibling, Kim Jong Nam.

“An administration who murders somebody in an open air terminal utilizing nerve operator, and a dictatorial pioneer who kills his sibling in that way, I mean, that is unmistakably a demonstration of fear based oppression that fits in with a scope of different activities,” McMaster said.

He said returning North Korea to the state backers of psychological oppression list “is something that is under thought.”

Kim Jong Nam kicked the bucket in February after two ladies rubbed his face with a fluid later distinguished as VX nerve operator as he went through the air terminal in Kuala Lumpur.

Under enactment authorized Aug 2, the US State Department was required to decide inside 90 days or around Thursday whether North Korea meets the criteria for being assigned as a state patron of psychological warfare.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson “keeps on assessing regardless of whether to assign DPRK as a state supporter of dread,” an authority said Thursday. “The Department has educated Members of Congress that he hopes to finish up his survey and declare a choice inside the month.”

Trump’s trek comes in the midst of raising strains with North Korea, which has kept on pursueing its rocket and atomic projects and increase its rocket testing. In a current discourse at the United Nations, Trump said he would “absolutely obliterate” the country, if vital.

He has additionally criticized the North Korean pioneer as “little Rocket Man.” Kim has given back where its due, calling Trump a “rationally unhinged US dotard.” Mc­Master said the president would not temper his talk against North Korea while on visit.

“The president will utilize whatever dialect he needs to utilize,” he said. “That has been of awesome consolation to our partners, accomplices and others in the area who are actually under the weapon of this administration.”